Tell us about your weekend ride

@King_Saxlingham aaaaahmagaaad! It was you - I was about to post in the Albion thread, ‘who did I not meet this weekend?’. I heard rumours there was a forummer about, so sorry didn’t get to say hi. …you should have joined the bag-making workshop! Such a top weekend, amazing roads, rides & people.

One of the highlights of my weekend was trying to attach an empty chocolate cookie bag to my scrotum with a rubber band in a failed attempt to ease the pain of some shocking chaffing.

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The rubberband in question, used for something else an hour or two later...

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Please tell me you didn't reuse the chocolate cookie bag...

That had been binned. I'm sure I could've used it for something else.

Limited by imagination alone.

Went out. Ventured into prime road cycling territory. Amongst all the carbon fibre copy grim faced men doing SERIOUS CYCLING in their kit it was nice to see a smiley man in a checkered shirt.

This path was way steeper than it looks

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That does look prime road cycling

Some snaps from the weekend

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That was a brief escape off-road. North of Henley and Marlow it's all lanes.

Mixed mtb route from Moffat in the borders to Innerleithen on Saturday, then back to Moffat on Sunday.
60km/1200m on Saturday
75km/1500m on Sunday.
Took a spill on a loose rocky track (not even gunning it) and got a tasty bruised leg and cut up hands. Learned that the big bike packing saddle bags that hang over your rear wheel put the weight a bit too high and a bit too far back for optimal handling. Definitely using a frame bag instead where possible in future.
Having lots of gears is nice.
The sun was out a lot more than expected.

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Nice pics.
That bruise needs to go in the Hidden Faces thread :)

Fred Whitton. First time in the Lakes and the scenery is breathtaking. Off to drive the route with family today.

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20 miles on the cyclepath after work this evening. Obviously not a big ride, but the furthest I've been on a bike since seriously losing my mojo due to Covid, having a baby & putting on a tonne of weight.

Beautiful weather, great scenery, all the cow parsley + and felt great to be getting (very slowly) back into the swing of it.

Tried to remind myself that a few years ago I could handle (and enjoy) multi day tours of 60+ hilly miles a day, with loaded panniers etc. I'm absolutely miles of that level at the moment, but you've got to start somewhere

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What route did you take?

Day 1
https://www.viewgpx.com/route/DkWXDcIn
Day 2
https://www.viewgpx.com/route/A27Aerv8

Can’t remember how religiously we stuck to the route.

Race Across Belgium. Type 2. Rain...rain...more rain. Cobbles are not cool or fun or clever...they're shite.

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Cheers. Might need to try riding the bits from St Mary's Loch to Moffat at some point. I've ridden the Innerleithen to St Mary's enough times now.

Wonderful weather for a post tour recoup around the local lanes.

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Hampshire?

Second photo is West Meon, no?

Lush. I miss that area big time.

Close, East Meon.

Yeah it's lovely at mo, everything is so green.